Tag: Gaia

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Gaia: How to find a star cluster

It’s the perfect meeting of old and new. Astronomers have combined recent data from ESA’s Gaia mission with a simple analysis technique from the 18th century to discover a massive …
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Gaia… mapping one billion stars

Gaia is ESA’s billion-star surveyor, designed to provide a precise 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy in order to understand its composition, formation and evolution.
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Gaia scanning the sky

A visualisation of how Gaia scanned the sky during its first 14 months of operations, between July 2014 and September 2015. The oval represents a projection of the celestial sphere, …
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First data from ESA’s Gaia mission

Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of roughly 1% …
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Gaia: Mission Overview

Timo Prusti – ESA Presentation recorded during the first Gaia data workshop at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) 2-4 November 2016. The slides to this presentation are available here:
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Gaia: Discussion session – Astrometry

Chair: Lennart Lindegren – Lund University Presentation recorded during the first Gaia data workshop at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) 2-4 November 2016. The slides to this presentation are …

Gaia: Working with astrometric data

Xavier Luri – Barcelona University Presentation recorded during the first Gaia data workshop at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) 2-4 November 2016. The slides to this presentation are available …